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v2.3.110 (28 Feb 2021)
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MAJOR NEW FEATURES
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- Added the Korean translation compiled by mirusu400 (thanks!) (Git #258)
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- Tartube now officially supports the downloader yt-dlp, replacing its support
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for youtube-dlc (which has been abandoned) (Git #254)
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
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- The FFmpeg options window now provides comboboxes for the user to specify
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GPU encoding and hardware acceleration (Git #264)
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- In the download options edit window, under the 'Files > Keep files' tab, the
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text has been improved to more accurately describe the handling of
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description, metadata, annotation and thumbnail files (Git #263)
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- In Tartube's setup.py, replaced the obsolete dependency pgi with pygobject
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(Git #242)
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MAJOR FIXES
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- In the download options edit window, in the Subtitles > Options tab, the
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button marked 'Download subtitles file for these languages' was completely
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broken. Fixed (Git #263)
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- Users who installed Tartube using one of the 'strict' packages reported that
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the preferences window could not be opened. The problem has probably been
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fixed (Git #256)
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MINOR FIXES
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- In the Videos tab, the 'Download all' button can be disabled. Other buttons/
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menu items are disabled at the same time. Download buttons in the Classic
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Mode tab were disabled, but should not have been. Fixed
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- When installing yt-dlp via pip, the version number was not recognised. Fixed
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- In the download options edit window, in the 'Files > File names' tab, there
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was a duplicate label in the 'Video properties' combobox. Fixed (Git #263)
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- Fixed a rare crash caused by an incorrectly detected videos
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- Various fixes for Git #243, Git #249
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v2.3.085 (13 Jan 2021)
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MAJOR NEW FEATURES
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- Added the Dutch translation compiled by Heimen Stoffels (thanks, Heimen!)
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(Git #244)
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- Tartube can now display statistics about the channels and playlists in your
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database, and about the database as a whole. These are visible in the
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preferences window, and in the channel/playlist properties windows. If
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matplotlib is installed on your system, Tartube can draw graphs showing
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your download history. For help with installing matplotlib on MS Windows,
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see the README (Git #235)
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- Added a new system folder called 'Recent videos'. It shows all videos
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checked/downloaded during the most recent download operation. Browsing this
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folder is perhaps more convenient than using the lists in the Progress and
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Classic Mode tabs
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- You can specify a custom path to the youtube-dl(c) executable. This is not
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recommended in general, but it might be useful for testing purposes
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(Git #243)
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
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- Added a menu item to check for new releases of Tartube (click Help > Check
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for updates). This function downloads simple text files from Tartube's
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websites, and should not collect any information about you. If you're still
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worried about privacy, don't use the feature. You can see exactly what is
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being downloaded in the Output tab (Git #216, 234 and others)
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- The path to youtube-dl(c)'s cookie jar file can now be customised, for
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example in Edit > General download options... > Files Cookies. If not
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customised, Tartube creates a cookie jar file in Tartube's main data folder
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(directory), as before (Git #240)
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- Several improvements to the Classic Mode tab. After clicking the 'Add URLs'
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button, any duplicate URLs (which are not copied from the top half to the
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bottom half) can optionally be deleted now. Click Edit > System
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preferences... > Windows > Main window, and select 'In the Classic Mode
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Tab, when adding URLs, remove duplicates rather than retaining them' (Git
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#233)
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- The first error generated when downloading a video/channel/playlist is now
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visible in the tooltip (in both the Progress and Classic Mode tabs). The
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behaviour can be disabled: click Edit > System preferences... > Windows
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> Main Window, and deselect 'Show errors/warnings in tooltips'. This is a
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compromise for showing the full error message in the tabs, which is
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not practical due to youtube-dl(c) limitations (Git #233)
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- In the Classic Mode Tab, after a download has finished, the name of the
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video file is no longer cleared, in order to assist with identifying
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failed downloads (Git #233)
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- In the Videos Tab, all status icons are now visible for all videos, even when
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thumbnails are not drawn (Git #233)
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- In the Classic Mode Tab, added a new 'Clear downloaded' button (Git #233)
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MAJOR FIXES
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- Fixed the 'No translation file found for domain: base' crashes (Git #245,
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#247)
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- Apparent fix for crashes while downloading videos from LinkedIn Video. The
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fix has not been fully tested yet (Git #240)
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- Fixed the re-download button in the Classic Mode Tab, which was completely
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broken
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- Fixed several problems with translations, which only became apparent after
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someone submitted a translation file
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MINOR FIXES
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- In the Videos tab, when a video is marked as 'Can't D/L', right-clicking the
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video to download it caused a crash. Fixed
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- In the Classic Mode tab, if duplicate URLs are added in the top half, then
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both are added to the bottom half after clicking the 'Add URLs' button.
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Fixed (Git #233)
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- In the Classic Mode tab, the 'Download all' button re-downloaded a video that
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had already been downloaded. Fixed (Git #233)
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- It was not possible to mark multiple videos as not livestreams in a single
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action. Fixed
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- After switching the system language in the preferences window, Tartube
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displayed the wrong icon. Fixed
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v2.3.042 (24 Dec 2020)
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MAJOR NEW FEATURES
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- youtube-dl(c) allows you to specify a proxy for downloading videos. This
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version allows you to specify a list of proxies (in Edit > System
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preferences... > Operations > Proxies). When downloading videos, Tartube
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will cycle through these proxies, one by one. A new proxy is used for
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each channel, each playlist, or each video in a folder (it is not possible
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to switch proxies during the download of a single channel or playlist). If
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you have specified a proxy in download options (for example, in Edit >
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General download options > Advanced > Network), then that proxy overrides
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the new list (Git #226)
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
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- You can now change the path to the video file. This might be useful in
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several scenarios: for example, if you've converted a video file to an
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audio file, or if you've changed the file name format, and have re-
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downloaded a video. To change the path, right-click a video and select
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'Show video > Properties...'. In the edit window, find the line marked
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'File'. There is a new button there that can be clicked in order to
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change the file path. For the sake of consistency, only video/audio files
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in the same directory/folder can be set (Git #211)
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- In case the preference window cannot be opened (because of some python
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error or other), a database integrity check can now be launched directly
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from the main window's menu (File > Check database integrity)
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- Sets of download options and FFmpeg options can now be cloned. When applying
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download options to a video/channel/playlist/folder, you can now select an
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existing set of download options, or clone an existing set, or create a new
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set (Git #224)
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- The copy of Youtube Stream Capture bundled along with Tartube has been
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updated to the latest release
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MAJOR FIXES
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- Found a fix for (uncommon) crashes on MS Windows, in the setup window for new
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installations, and a fix for (common) problems in keeping the textview
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updated when youtube-dl(c) and/or FFmpeg are being downloaded from the
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seutp window (Git #212)
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- More fixes for stalled video downloads. Tartube is now sensitive to some
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new network problems, and in that situation can restart the download
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immediately, rather than waiting some minutes. The new behaviour is
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disabled by default. To enable it, click Edit > System preferences...
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> Operations > Downloads, and select 'If a network problem is detected,
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restart the download immediately'. I still have not been able to reproduce
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a stalled download, but the restart process should work more smoothly now
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(Git #174)
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- If downloading subtitles was enabled, Tartube mistook the path to the
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subtitles file for the path to the video file. This should be fixed now
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(Git #211)
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- In the Classic Mode tab, the button to re-download a video was broken. Fixed
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it (Git #218)
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- Fixed a broken dialogue window, when Tartube runs out of disk space for
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downloading videos, which caused a crash (Git #217)
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- A refresh operation failed to notice audio files, as well as video files. It
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now recognised both (Git #225)
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- Some users have reported problems associated with download options (Git #228,
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among others). I am not sure about the cause of these issues yet, but I
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have been able to fix a couple of errors in the code (one major, one
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minor). These errors may be responsible for the reported issues, or not
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- Fixed folders that vanish when being dragged and dropped into other folders
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(MS Windows only), and fixed associated broken dialogue windows (Git #232)
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MINOR FIXES
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- After a period of continuous operation, without checking/download videos,
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live/debut videos could change their status, but the order of videos in the
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Videos Tab was not updated. Live/debut videos are supposed to be listed
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first, before all other videos; this should now be working better
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- Times in the Errors/Warnings tab were shown in UTC, instead of the user's
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local time zone. The same problem applied to metadata in Tartube's saved
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data files. Fixed both (Git #213)
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- The size of the main window, and the position of the slider in the Videos
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tab, can be remembered between sessions (see the options in 'Edit > System
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preference... > Windows > Main winndow'). However, the position of the
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slider was not set correctly on MS Windows. Fixed that, and also added a
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separate setting so that the window size, but not the slider position,
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can be remembered (if that's what you want). If remembering the slider
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position is enabled, Tartube will now remember the position of all three
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sliders (Git #215)
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- You can download a video, then apply download options directly to the video,
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then modify the options to change the download video's filename, then
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re-download the video. The original video is deleted, but not its metadata
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files. The redownload button in the Classic Mode tab did not delete the
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original video or its metadata files in this situation. Fixed both
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(Git #219)
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- Fixed a few annoying dialogue windows which, when closed, pushed the main
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window to the fore, instead of the preference window
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- When video catalogues are listed without thumbnails at all, but sorted by
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download (receive) time, the upload time was displayed instead. Fixed
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- At the bottom of the videos tab is a toolbar which can be partially hidden.
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On startup, when not fully hidden, the toolbar can now be partially hidden
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before any videos are displayed
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v2.3.008 (4 Dec 2020)
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MAJOR FIXES
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- Fixed major error caused when switching between databases; some data from the
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old database leaked into the new one, which caused any number of problems
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(Git #209)
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- When right-clicking a channel (etc), fixed broken 'Folder Contents > All
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contents > Mark as not new', and several other similar actions (Git #206)
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- Update imported XDG code (Tartube's xdg_tartube.py file) to match the most
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recent release of the Python XDG module; hoping to fix an installation
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error with the Debian package. The new Debian package has not been tested
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yet, so the error may not be resolved (Git #205)
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MINOR FIXES
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- Updated imported Youtube Stream Capture code to the new release; the authors
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states that it contains some bug fixes. The new version still does not work
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on MS Windows
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v2.3.0 (1 Dec 2020)
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MAJOR NEW FEATURES
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- On new installations, users will now see a friendly setup window, allowing
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them to choose basic settings, and to download youtube-dl(c) and FFmpeg.
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The settings available to choose depends on the user's operating system.
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The new window replaces a set of windows in previous versions, and should
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reduce the number of disappointed users who don't understand why they can't
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download any videos
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- Videos can now be displayed in a grid, as well as in a list. The grid is
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enabled by default for new installations. For existing installations, click
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the 'Switch' button near the top of the main window until you see the
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layout you prefer
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- The size and appearance of videos in the grid can be changed. In the bottom-
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right corner of the Videos tab, click the icon to reveal the toolbar, and
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then modify one or more of the options. Videos can now be sorted by
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download time and database ID, as well as by name or upload time, as
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before. When sorted by download time, that is the time visible in the video
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list (Git #192)
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- YouTube has changed the way it handles livestreams and, as a result, earlier
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versions of Tartube could not detect livestreams until they started
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broadcasting. That is fixed in this version. In addition, Tartube will now
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show the (approximate) start time for a livestream. When a livestream or
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debut is about to start (three minutes before, by default), Tartube will
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now check it more frequently (every minute, by default)
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- Tartube can now tell the difference between a YouTube 'Premiere' (a pre-
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recorded video, released at a pre-determined time as if it were a
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livestream), and an actual livestream. Premiere/Debut videos are now shown
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with different-coloured backgrounds. If you want, you can use the same
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colours for both, or disable background colours altogether (click
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Edit > System preferences > Windows > Videos, and change the settings
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there)
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- In earlier version, up to three download schedules, with fixed
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characteristics, could be set up. You can now create as many download
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schedules as you like and customise them in any way you like. To create
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your first custom schedule, click Edit > System preferences... >
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Scheduling > Start. Enter a schedule name in the box, then click the 'Add'
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button. If you were already using download schedules, they should be
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visible in the list; click one to select it, then click the Edit button to
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check it is still meeting your needs (Git #148, #168). Schedules are stored
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in the Tartube database, so they won't be available if you switch databases
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- You can now create as many sets of download options as you like. To see a
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list of them, click Edit > System preferences... > Options > Download
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options. As before, the 'general' set cannot be deleted (but can be
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modified). As before, other sets can be applied to a video/channel/
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playlist/folder, or to the Classic Mode tab. It's now easy to switch the
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set used in the Classic Mode tab, and the old set is no longer deleted
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after a switch. If you right-click a video/channel/playlist/folder, and
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select 'Apply download options', you will now see a dialogue window, from
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which you can choose one of the existing sets (Git #171)
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- This version includes a new GUI for processing videos with FFmpeg, replacing
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the much simpler dialogue window in the previous release. To see it, right-
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click a video and select 'Process with FFmpeg...' (but in the Classic Mode
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tab, select one or more videos, and use the new button at the bottom of the
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tab). In the GUI window, click the 'Show more FFmpeg options' button to see
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the full range of settings. Both videos and thumbnails can be processed,
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but only videos visible somewhere in Tartube's main window can be processed
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(if you want an all-purpose FFmpeg batch converter, then use a separate
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application). Videos can be dragged-and-dropped into the GUI's Videos tab
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(Git #153)
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- As with download options, you can create as many sets of FFmpeg options as
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you like. To see a list of them, click Edit > System preferences > Options
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> FFmpeg options. At any one time, one set of options is the 'current' one;
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that is the set you will see, when you right-click a video to open the new
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GUI
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- Download options are stored in the database file, so if you switch databases,
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they are no longer available. You can now export a set of download options
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to a file, and then re-import them after you have switched databases. You
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can also rename sets of download options. All of this also applies to
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FFmpeg options (Git #171)
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- The new FFmpeg GUI can be used to stitch together a video and audio file,
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if FFmpeg did not merge them during the original download (Git #153)
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- Near the top of the main window, there is a new 'Hide' button, which hides
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most system folders (whose icons are red folders). After clicking the
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button, it is replaced by a 'Show' button. Items can still be hidden/
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revealed in Tartube's menu or by right-clicking each channel/playlist/
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folder individually
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- Tartube now includes a copy of the Youtube Stream Capture script. Support for
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this script is experimental. It only works on YouTube. It does not work on
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MS Windows. It does not work for continuous 24/7 livestreams. It does not
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work with every livestream (but works more often than youtube-dl, in
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general). The script is disabled by default; to enable it, click Edit >
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System preferences > Operations > Livestreams, and select 'Use Youtube
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Stream Capture to download broadcasting livestreams'. The Python module
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'aria2' is required, if you want to use the new script. For more
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information about this feature, see the README (Git #197)
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- Anyone creating a Tartube package can now use the new environment variable
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TARTUBE_PKG_NO_DOWNLOAD. This will disable video downloads altogether;
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checking videos will still be possible. Thus, anyone worried about the
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legality of downloading videos can create a Tartube package that doesn't
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download any videos. (When Tartube 'checks' a video, it 'scrapes' the video
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website. The authors understand that the US courts have ruled that scraping
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a website in this way is legal). See the README for more information.
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
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- Videos can now be dragged-and-dropped from Tartube into an external window
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(for example, a text editor, or an FFmpeg batch converter). You can
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customise what data is received by the external application: click
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Edit > System preferences > Windows > Drag (Git #153)
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- To make drag and drop more useful, you can now select multiple rows in the
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Progress, Classic Mode and Errors/Warnings tabs
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- To accommodate the video grid, the standard size of a Tartube window has been
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increased. Don't forget that you can tell Tartube to remember its size
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(Edit > System preferences... > Windows > Main Window, then select
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'Remember the size of the main window when shutting down')
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- Auto-detection of the location of an existing youtube-dl installation has
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been improved
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- Tartube can produce debug messages, visible in a terminal window. Until now,
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these messages could only be enabled by editing the source code. There are
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now two ways of enabling debug messages: first, place an (empty) file
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called debug.txt in the same directory as the tartube executable; second,
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click Edit > System preferences... > General > Debugging, and set one of
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the options there. (This tab also shows the correct location for the
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debug.txt on your system)
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- At the end of a download operation, the number of videos checked/downloaded
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is now displayed in the dialogue window and/or desktop notification
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- During downloads, Tartube can now filter out more types of YouTube message
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(so they don't appear in the Errors/Warnings tab). They can be seen in
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Edit > System preferences... > Windows > Websites (Git #172)
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- Git #169 reported that Tartube was showing a negative number of videos in the
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Video Index (left-hand side of the Videos Tab). The cause was not found,
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but Tartube now automatically detects this kind of errors and auto-fixes
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it. The database integrity check has also been updated
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- The youtube-dl download options '--sleep-interval' and
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'--max-sleep-interval' can now be set in Tartube's download options window
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(Git #173)
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- The layout of edit and preferences has been updated and improved, in many
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cases
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- In the Videos Tab toolbar, there was no button to cancel filtering by text;
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added one. Some issues with these buttons being enabled/disabled at the
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wrong time were also fixed
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- If the download of a video/channel/playlist stalls, for some reason, there is
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now a mechanism for restarting it. It can be enabled by clicking
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Edit > System preferences... > Operations > Downloads, and then selecting
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'If a download stalls, restart it after this many minutes'. The authors
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have not been able to reproduce a stalled download, so this mechanism has
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not been fully tested (Git #174)
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- When download options are applied to an individual video, you can now see an
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extra icon (this was previously only visible when the video's thumbnail
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had not been downloaded)
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- When download options are applied to an individual video, they are now
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unapplied (removed) when the video is downloaded, by default. If you want
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to change this behaviour, click Edit > System preferences... > Options >
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Preferences, and deselect 'After downloading a video, remove its
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download options'
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- You can no longer open multiple preference windows, or multiple edit windows
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for the same set of data
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- In the Classic Mode Tab, Tartube can now remember URLs that have been added,
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but not yet used. To enable this feature, click the menu button in the
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top-right corner, and select 'Remember URLs'. When you restart Tartube,
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any URLs which were not downloaded in the previous session should now be
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visible in the top half of the tab (Git #194)
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- In the Classic Mode Tab, there is new 'Clear all' button (Git #194)
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- Added a slider in the middle of the Classic Mode Tab, so that the two halves
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can be resized, if required. The existing sliders in the Videos Tab and in
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the Progress Tab now have a minimum size, so that the user can't
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accidentally make half of the window invisible
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- The Gtk file chooser dialogue was typically bigger than the size of the
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observable universe (especially on MS Windows). Tartube will now resize it,
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if so
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- Custom downloads can now be performed in the Classic Mode Tab. To enable
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them, click the menu icon in the top-right corner, and select 'Enable
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custom downloads'. Then, when you click the 'Download all' button in the
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bottom-right corner, a custom download is performed. For more information
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about what a custom download is, see the README (Git #174)
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MAJOR FIXES
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- Fixed various problems caused on MS Windows when downloading videos whose
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names contain Japanese characters (Git #106, #115, #175)
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- Some reports suggest that Tartube crashes when the Output Tab contains a
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great deal of text (tens of thousands of lines). The problem could not be
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reproduced, but there is now a maximum page size. The maximum size can be
|
|
adjusted by the user. No further problems have been reported (Git #170)
|
|
- Various issues in sorting videos have been fixed. A list of videos should now
|
|
be displayed in a much more consistent order, which in most cases fixes the
|
|
issues
|
|
- In case of further problems in sorting videos into their correct order, the
|
|
toolbar at the bottom of the Videos Tab has a new button which will force
|
|
a re-sort of the visible video list
|
|
- Fixed an error when opening a directory/folder (containing downloaded videos,
|
|
etc) on the desktop (Git #180)
|
|
- In the 'Download options' window, the 'Completely reset all download options
|
|
to their default values' button was broken. Fixed it
|
|
- Fixed an error, in which Tartube was unable to load a database from v1.4.037
|
|
(Git #184)
|
|
- Some reports suggest that one of the Tartube source code files is being
|
|
confused with another application's files. This problem affects packaging
|
|
systems such as dkpg and .AUR. The Tartube file has been renamed, which
|
|
should resolve the problem (Git #186)
|
|
- Tartube was, under rare circumstances, unable to recognise a video that had
|
|
been downloaded (because Tartube was looking for the wrong file extension).
|
|
Fixed
|
|
- In various lists (for example, the list of download options in the
|
|
preferences window), it was not possible to manipulate the first row of
|
|
the list (for example, by selecting it and then clicking the 'Edit'
|
|
button). Fixed
|
|
- Fixed a crash caused by a faulty setting of a video's livestream status
|
|
(Git #34)
|
|
- Fixed a crash caused when videos/channels/playlists are automatically removed
|
|
from the bottom half of the Progress Tab (Git #34)
|
|
- Fixed incorrect handling of a video's URL, when the video is dragged from an
|
|
external application (such as a file explorer) into Tartube's main window
|
|
(on Linux/BSD only). Tartube now recognises both a file path and a URL,
|
|
when the external application supplies one or the other (Git #153)
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed some issues in the tidy operation (Operations > Tidy up files) that
|
|
made it appear that nothing was happening (Git #189)
|
|
- In rare cases, the tidy operation caused a crash when handling thumbnails.
|
|
Fixed
|
|
- In the tidy operation, removed the warning about deleting files, when the
|
|
user is moving thumbnails into a sub-directory
|
|
- Fixed a rare error when extracting output from youtube-dl
|
|
- On Linux/BSD, the user might not have able to enable desktop notifications.
|
|
Fixed
|
|
- Fixed an error in reading the database file from an unreachable location (for
|
|
example, an unplugged external hard drive) (Git #167)
|
|
- In the preferences window, selecting multiple databases at the same time
|
|
caused Gtk issues, so disabled multiple selection, which fixes the issues
|
|
- In the Results List (bottom half of the Progress Tab), a deleted video could
|
|
still be selected, and the user might still try to right-click it and
|
|
delete it again. The code has been updated so that any video visible in the
|
|
list that has been deleted cannot be selected or right-clicked
|
|
- Fixed an issue, in which Tartube could not correctly interpret youtube-dl
|
|
output (Git #177)
|
|
- When no thumbnail is available for a video, the standard icon used is now
|
|
the same size as a thumbnail, so that every video in the list takes up the
|
|
same amount of space
|
|
- In the Video Catalogue, fixed the missing gap between the 'Favourite' and
|
|
'Missing' labels. Fixed the situation in which that line became too long
|
|
for its box
|
|
- In the Videos Tab toolbar, when the user sets a recent date, the Video
|
|
Catalogue no longer tries to skip to the non-existence page zero
|
|
- The main window's menu now refers to the actual downloader (for example,
|
|
youtube-dlc), rather than referring to youtube-dl until Tartube restarts
|
|
- When a video's URL is used as displayed in place of its name, Tartube now
|
|
does a better job of wrapping the text across multiple lines
|
|
- Tartube could not recognise some youtube-dlc version numbers. Fixed
|
|
- Made minor changes to some icons to improve legibility
|
|
- Fixed a Python error when right-clicking unselected videos in the Classic
|
|
Mode Tab
|
|
- For livestreams that are already broadcasting, the 'D/L on start' label is no
|
|
longer clickable
|
|
- After clicking File > Save all, the user will now see a better confirmation
|
|
dialogue
|
|
- Fixed a minor spacing issue in the tooltip text used for videos
|
|
- In the toolbar at the bottom of the Videos Tab, the next/previous buttons
|
|
were the wrong way around (but only when custom icons were in use). Fixed
|
|
- Fixed some issues in the Output Tab, in which the scrollbar did not
|
|
automatically scroll to the bottom as new text was added. (The behaviour is
|
|
still not perfect on all operating systems, but it is better than before)
|
|
- The cookie jar used by youtube-dl is now written to Tartube's data directory,
|
|
rather than to the directory where Tartube source code is stored
|
|
|
|
v2.2.0 (30 Sep 2020)
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|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube is now confirmed to work on MacOS. See the README file for
|
|
installation instructions
|
|
- Tartube can now handle video thumbnails in the .webp format, as long as
|
|
FFmpeg is installed. Thumbnails are automatically converted to .jpg (either
|
|
by youtube-dl, or by Tartube itself, as appropriate). This only affects new
|
|
downloads. If you want to convert .webp thumbnails you've already
|
|
downloaded, click Operations > Tidy up files..., select 'Convert .webp
|
|
thumbnails to .jpg using Ffmpeg', and click OK. (This procedure may take a
|
|
while if there are thousands of thumbnails to convert) (Git #155 and
|
|
others)
|
|
- Thumbnails, video description, metadata and annotation files can now be
|
|
downloaded into a sub-directory, rather than being stored in the same
|
|
directory as their videos. Thumbnails are stored in /.thumbs, and the
|
|
others are stored in /.data. On Linux/BSD, those sub-directories are
|
|
normally invisible by default (typically, pressing CTRL+H will reveal
|
|
them). This new feature is disabled by default. To enable it, click Edit >
|
|
Download options... > Files > Write/move files, and select one or more of
|
|
the checkboxes. The new feature only affects new downloads. If you want to
|
|
move files you've already downloaded, click Operations > Tidy up files...,
|
|
select 'Move thumbnails into own folder' and/or 'Move other metadata files
|
|
into own folder', and click OK (Git #139)
|
|
- You can now select one or more videos, and process them with FFmpeg directly
|
|
(in other words, after downloads have finished, and without involving
|
|
youtube-dl). This will be useful if you want to convert one video format to
|
|
another, change the frame rate, or with countless other tasks. Just select
|
|
the video(s), right-click them and select 'Process with FFmpeg...'. Since
|
|
many FFmpeg procedures require a different output filename, you can specify
|
|
that, too. Note that FFmpeg sometimes takes a very long time; you should
|
|
test a procedure with a single video, before trying to process hundreds of
|
|
them (Git #153)
|
|
- Tartube can now use forks of youtube-dl, such as youtube-dlc. (Tartube
|
|
assumes that a fork is still very similar to the original). A fork can be
|
|
specified in Edit > System preferences... > youtube-dl (Git #158)
|
|
- New installations of Tartube will now auto-detect the location of youtube-dl,
|
|
if it is already installed on your system. This will benefit users of the
|
|
.DEB and .RPM packages, who until now were expected to know how to set the
|
|
youtube-dl path manually (Git #152)
|
|
- Ffmpeg and AVConv will now also be auto-detected. If you have installed them
|
|
in unusual locations, you should specify those locations in Edit >
|
|
System preferences... > youtube-dl > Ffmpeg / AVConv. If not, there is no
|
|
need to specify either location; just leave the boxes empty. (None of this
|
|
applies to MS Windows users)
|
|
- When Tartube shuts down unexpectedly, it doesn't have time to mark the
|
|
database as no longer being in use (i.e. doesn't remove the lockfile). The
|
|
next time Tartube runs, users were prompted to remove the lockfile, then
|
|
restart Tartube. Many users were unhappy with this situation, so it has
|
|
been improved. You will still be prompted to remove the lockfile, but there
|
|
is no longer any need to restart Tartube
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- FFmpeg is now required for a lot of Tartube functionality. On new
|
|
installations, users who have not yet installed FFmpeg will see some
|
|
additional nag-boxes, and various hints in other configuration windows
|
|
(Git #155)
|
|
- If users downloadd a video, but only its audio, the video appeared in
|
|
Tartube's database as downloaded. However, when the user clicked on the
|
|
'Player' label, the audio file was not opened in the system's media player.
|
|
Tartube now checks for an audio file (as well as video files in different
|
|
formats), if the video file it was expecting does not exist
|
|
- When the user clicks Operations > Update youtube-dl, Tartube now
|
|
automatically makes the Output tab visible. Hopefully this will avoid
|
|
confusion for new users, who do not notice that the Check all/Download all
|
|
buttons have been greyed out. This behaviour can be disabled, if required:
|
|
click Edit > System preferences... > Output > Output Tab, and deselect
|
|
'During an update operation, automatically switch to the Output Tab'
|
|
(Git #149)
|
|
- The invidio.us website has closed. There are many mirrors available. Tartube
|
|
now uses invidious.site as its default mirror. To specify a different
|
|
mirror, click Edit > System preferences... > Operations > Downloads
|
|
- YouTube phased out video annotations in 2019. The Tartube code was unable to
|
|
download annotation files during a simulated download (for example, with
|
|
the 'Check all' button). Now that there is no way of testing any fix, the
|
|
feature has been removed entirely
|
|
- You can now add automatic custom downloads on a schedule (normal downloads
|
|
were already available). Click Edit > System preferences... > Scheduling
|
|
(Git #154)
|
|
- Reduced the compulsory delay at the end of many types of operation. The
|
|
delay time is not the same for all types of operation
|
|
- Tartube debug messages are visible in the terminal window (if open). Before,
|
|
the user had to edit the source code to enable debug messages. They can
|
|
now be enabled from within Tartube itself: click Edit > System
|
|
preferences... > General > Debugging. These settings are not saved, so when
|
|
Tartube restarts, you will have to re-enable debug messages again
|
|
- In the Progress and Classic Mode tabs, the name of the incoming file (and
|
|
other similar columns) are no longer artificially shortened (Git #161)
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- When one channel downloads into videos into another channel's directory,
|
|
and the other channel is then deleted, the Tartube database did not update
|
|
itself properly. Fixed
|
|
- Fixed some issues when using the refresh operation to import videos, that had
|
|
been downloaded by youtube-dl (without Tartube's) help, into Tartube's
|
|
database (Git #142)
|
|
- Tartube can now download videos using the youtube-dl archive file, even when
|
|
missing video detection is turned on (Git #154)
|
|
- Tartube sometimes froze on shutdown, after youtube-dl had been updated.
|
|
Applied the existing MS Windows fix to all operating systems
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed issues when importing a JSON export file on MS Windows, and a different
|
|
issue error when importing it on Linux
|
|
- We were not able to fix export issues reported in Git #143, but we have
|
|
updated the dialogue window, which should give more information about what
|
|
is causing the error
|
|
- System folders cannot be deleted. The 'Delete folder' popup menu item is now
|
|
greyed out. (Nothing happened, even when it was clickable)
|
|
- Warnings about broken Gtk have been removed (probably permanently)
|
|
|
|
v2.1.070 (8 Aug 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- Checking videos (e.g. by clicking the Check All button) was broken. Fixed
|
|
- Fixed a very rare freeze/crash when handling temporary directories
|
|
|
|
v2.1.065 (7 Aug 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube can now detect videos that were downloaded by the user, and have
|
|
since been removed by the original uploader. To enable this functionality,
|
|
click 'Edit > System preferences... > youtube-dl > Preferences' and then
|
|
click 'Add videos which have been removed from a channel/playlist to the
|
|
Missing Videos Folder' to select it. Note that youtube-dl's archive file
|
|
(if enabled) is ignored when missing video detection is enabled (Git #140)
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Schedules download times can now be specified in any time unit (for example,
|
|
minutes), rather than in days only (Git #129)
|
|
- The Tartube version number is no longer displayed in the main window's title
|
|
bar (this was only supposed to be a temporary feature)
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- In the Classic Mode tab, the video/audio format selector was broken. It was
|
|
not possible to change the video/audio format from here. Fixed (Git #124)
|
|
- It was not possible to perform a custom download by right-clicking a channel
|
|
or playlist. Fixed (Git #134)
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Added .ICO file for the Tartube logo, for MS Windows users (Git #122)
|
|
- The first entry box in the download options window was editable. Fixed
|
|
|
|
v2.1.051 (4 Jul 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
ATTENTION YOUTUBE USERS
|
|
- You may be wondering why Tartube cannot display video thumbnails from
|
|
newly-uploaded videos. YouTube has changed its video thumbnails to a new
|
|
format, .webp. The Gtk graphics libraries don't support this format. A
|
|
future release of youtube-dl will convert .webp thumbnails to .jpg, but the
|
|
feature is not available yet. When it becomes available, you might need to
|
|
install Ffmpeg on your system, if you haven't already done so (see the
|
|
README file)
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- For MS Windows users, there is now a portable edition of Tartube, as well as
|
|
the usual installer. Use the portable edition if you want to run Tartube
|
|
from removable media, such as a USB drive
|
|
- After clicking the main 'Check all' button, it was not possible to right-
|
|
click a video to download it. After clicking the main 'Download all'
|
|
button, it was not possible to right-click a video to check it. Both of
|
|
these actions are now allowed
|
|
- Closing Tartube to the system tray is now disabled by default (only affects
|
|
new installations). This is for the benefit of users whose systems do not
|
|
have a system tray, or for whom the Tartube icon is not visible for some
|
|
reason (Git #98)
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- The latest releases of Tartube's graphics library, Gtk, still do not fix the
|
|
many stability issues we've been reporting for some years. As a consequence
|
|
the workarounds that stop Tartube from crashing every two minutes are now
|
|
completely optional (i.e. Tartube no longer applies them regardless of your
|
|
wishes). If you enjoy watching Tartube crash, feel free to disable the
|
|
workarounds by clicking 'Edit > System preferences... > General
|
|
> Stability' and then clicking 'Disable some cosmetic features...' to
|
|
deselect it
|
|
- When checking the status of livestreams (which happens every few minutes,
|
|
by default), the Tartube icon in the system tray now looks different. (The
|
|
checks for livestream status were otherwise silent)
|
|
- Various alternative front-ends to YouTube exist. Tartube already recognises
|
|
HookTube and Invidious. You can now specify any alternative you like;
|
|
perhaps one the several Invidious clones that are currently available.
|
|
Click 'Edit > System preferences... > Operations > Custom' to open the
|
|
correct tab. More complete instructions have been added to the README
|
|
- In the Classic Mode tab, the buttons in the top-right corner have been
|
|
replaced with a popup menu
|
|
- A separate set of download options are now applied to downloads in the
|
|
Classic Mode Tab. These download options are applied by default, even on
|
|
existing installations. To disable/re-enable them, click the menu in the
|
|
top-right corner of the tab, and select 'Use classic download options' or
|
|
'Use general download options'
|
|
- If download options are applied to the Classic Mode tab, then a video's
|
|
description, metadata (etc) files are not downloaded in that tab, by
|
|
default (Git #77)
|
|
- The youtube-dl archive file is no longer created in downloads from the
|
|
Classic Mode tab, by default. To re-enable this functionality, click 'Edit
|
|
> System preferences... > youtube-dl', and select both 'Allow youtube-dl to
|
|
create its own arhive file...' and 'Also create an archive file when
|
|
downloading from the Classic Mode tab...'. This change affects new
|
|
installations; users with earlier versions of Tartube installed on their
|
|
system must remove an existing archive file manually, if they don't want
|
|
it (Git #77)
|
|
- In the Classic Mode tab, added a button to show the contents of the download
|
|
directory/folder
|
|
- In the system preferences window, the 'When Tartube starts, automatically
|
|
open the Classic Mode tab' setting has been moved to a more logical place
|
|
(Windows > Tabs)
|
|
- The toolbar at the top of the Videos tab can now be hidden, if you don't
|
|
like it. Click 'Edit > System preferences... > Windows > Main window', and
|
|
click 'Don't show the main window toolbar' to select it
|
|
- In the Videos tab, you can now add the URL of a video, channel or playlist to
|
|
the Classic Mode tab by right-clicking it, and then selecting an item in
|
|
the popup menu. The original video/channel/playlist is not removed from
|
|
Tartube's database
|
|
- Tidy operations can now remove .webp thumbnails. Once the youtube-dl fix
|
|
mentioned above has been released, you can remove the thumbnails, then
|
|
click 'Check all' to re-download them in .jpg format
|
|
- Some users have reported that some icons in Tartube's main window are
|
|
invisible on their system. These are stock icons which should be available
|
|
on all systems (but which, apparently, are not). For the benefit of those
|
|
users, an extra set of icons have been created. To enable them, click
|
|
'Edit > System preferences... > Windows > Main window > Replace stock icons
|
|
with custom icons...' (Git #118)
|
|
- In the Temporary Videos folder, you can now see which channel/playlist/folder
|
|
the video originally belonged to (where appropriate). The video's original
|
|
name and description are also now visible, when known
|
|
- The URL for a channel or playlist can now be modified (Git #117)
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- Installation via PyPI was broken, because the gi package had been removed.
|
|
This is now fixed
|
|
- Installation using the DEB package will now automatically install
|
|
python3-pip (if not already installed), so that youtube-dl can be
|
|
installed/updated straight away
|
|
- When closing Tartube using the X button (usually) in the top-right corner of
|
|
the window, and assuming that closing to the system tray is disabled,
|
|
neither the config file nor Tartube's database file were saved. Fixed
|
|
- Adding a preferred media format in one download options window added the
|
|
same format in all download options windows. Fixed (Git #119)
|
|
- A custom location for the FFmpeg executable can be set in 'Edit > System
|
|
preferences... > youtube-dl'. This did not work on any operationg system
|
|
for various reasons, all of which have been fixed (Git #90)
|
|
- After checking/downloading videos, Tartube checks for livestreams, after
|
|
which it occasionally crashes. This crash has now been fixed
|
|
- Some videos were continually re-marked as livestreams, even after the
|
|
livestream had finished broadcasting (and even after the user manually
|
|
marked the video as not a livestream). Fixed
|
|
- Some livestream videos were continually re-added to Tartube's database,
|
|
creating a number of duplicate copies of the same video. The problem has
|
|
been fixed; you can delete the duplicates at your leisure
|
|
- When videos are checked, Tartube no longer supplies youtube-dl with a
|
|
preferred media format. If you have specified a rarely-used media format,
|
|
this change will prevent a great many useless error messages being
|
|
generated
|
|
- When detecting livestreams, Tartube generated many 'Add livestream failed
|
|
sanity check' errors. The underlying cause has been fixed, which should
|
|
improve livestream detection a little
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed failure to recognise that a config file exists in the Tartube source
|
|
code directory (which forces Tartube to use that location for its config
|
|
file rather than the system's default location, even if the config file is
|
|
empty or unreadable)
|
|
- Fixed rare problems in updating old Tartube database files to make videos
|
|
work as livestreams. The database integrity check ('Edit >
|
|
System preferences... > Filesystem > DB Errors') now checks for such
|
|
problems
|
|
- In the download options window, the 'If a merge is required after post-
|
|
processing, output to this format' option will not work if the specified
|
|
media format doesn't also appear in the preferred format list. Moved the
|
|
two onto the same tab, and added a dialogue window to warn the user that a
|
|
media format must be added twice
|
|
- Also fixed the format selection combobox in the Classic Mode tab, so that
|
|
the preferred media format and the 'If a merge is required after post-
|
|
processing...' options are set to the same value
|
|
- In the system preferences window, the 'When Tartube starts, automatically
|
|
open the Classic Mode tab' setting was not working properly; fixed it
|
|
- For downloads in the Classic Mode tab, an error was displayed in the
|
|
Errors/Warnings tab using the video name 'Dummy Video'; changed that to
|
|
the standard text for videos whose name is not known
|
|
- Fixed python errors generated when playing a sound effect, on a system for
|
|
which the python playsound module hasn't been installed
|
|
- Fixed a python error generated when shutting down Tartube suddenly, while
|
|
livestreams are being detected
|
|
- For reasons not understood, Tartube might (on extremely rare occasions)
|
|
create a (red) system folder called 'downloads_2'. This folder could not be
|
|
deleted. Until the cause can be found, such invalid system folders can now
|
|
now be deleted, and are deleted automatically during a database integrity
|
|
check
|
|
- In the system preferences window, Operations > Livestreams tab, there are two
|
|
checkbuttons enabling/disabling livestream detection. The second one could
|
|
be enabled even when the first was disabled; this has been fixed, and
|
|
should remove some unexpected behaviour
|
|
- When updating youtube-dl, the warning 'The script youtube-dl is installed...'
|
|
is now intercepted, and is no longer interpreted as a failure
|
|
|
|
v2.1.0 (7 May 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- For everyone who wants a simpler way to download videos, a new Classic Mode
|
|
Tab has been added, emulating the look and feel of youtube-dl-gui. Videos
|
|
downloaded in this tab can be downloaded to any location, and are not added
|
|
to Tartube's database
|
|
- Tartube can now detect livestreams, and alert you when they start. This
|
|
feature is EXPERIMENTAL, has only been tested on YouTube, and may not be
|
|
reliable. It does not work at all on the 32-bit MS Windows installer
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- Added internationalisation. If you can contribute a translation to this
|
|
project, please see the ../docs/translate.rst file. As a proof of concept,
|
|
Tartube can now be used with either British or American spelling
|
|
- You can now specify unlimited numbers of video/audio formats (the limit was
|
|
previously three). You can also specify that youtube-dl should try to
|
|
download each video in each of your preferred formats, rather than in one
|
|
or all available formats (as was the case before)
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|
|
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Made minor improvements to the look of various dialogue windows
|
|
- Slightly improved the functionality of buttons in the system preference
|
|
window's database tab
|
|
- If a database can't be loaded (but an alternative database can), an
|
|
explanatory messages is now added to the Errors/Warnings Tab. If an
|
|
alternative database can't be loaded (or only one database has been added
|
|
to Tartube's list), then the dialogue window seen by the user is now
|
|
slightly more helpful
|
|
- Some startup errors, which were invisible to users not running Tartube from a
|
|
terminal window, now produce a visible dialogue window
|
|
- The code to force renamig of channels/playlists/folders (when required) has
|
|
been adjusted so it creates a name like 'Folder_3' rather than
|
|
'Folder_2_2_2_2'
|
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- Instructions for Tartube installations have been updated generally. The
|
|
MS Windows batch/shell files used to start Tartube have been tweaked
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|
|
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MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- The MS Windows installers have been updated to use Python 3.8. This may fix
|
|
some stability issues for a few users
|
|
- For systems with a broken Gtk library (or if the user has disabled minor
|
|
cosmetic features anyway), the list of videos in the Videos Tab is no
|
|
longer updated during a download operation. This should resolve some
|
|
lingering stability issues. (You can manually update the list by selecting
|
|
a different channel/playlist/folder, then selecting the original one again)
|
|
- In the Video Catalogue, new videos are sometimes added to the last page,
|
|
rather than to the first one. Rewrote the code yet again to resolve this
|
|
issue; hopefully this should be the last rewrite
|
|
- The Python setup file now explicitly mentions more dependencies; this should
|
|
assist with installation issues for PyPI, DEB and RPM packages
|
|
- The RPM package, which did not work at all on Tartube v2.0.016, is now
|
|
working again
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- In the general download options window, in the Files tab, there was a
|
|
duplicate set of template options. Remove the duplicate set, replacing it
|
|
with a larger set of options
|
|
- Info/Tidy operations complained that they couldn't start while an edit/
|
|
preference window is open, and then started anyway. Fixed
|
|
- In the Progress List, a video's name is updated as soon as it is known
|
|
(before, the name was only updated in the Results List)
|
|
- The start of a download operation is now (slightly) quicker, because the
|
|
setup code is no longer called (incorrectly) for every single video
|
|
- Download operations scheduled to begin when Tartube starts now begin after
|
|
a few seconds, rather than immediately (for aesthetic reasons)
|
|
|
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v2.0.016 (10 Apr 2020)
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube's config file is stored in a standard location for your system, by
|
|
default. For testing purposes, you can copy a config file into Tartube's
|
|
installation directory (the one containing this file). If you do so,
|
|
Tartube will load and later save that config file, rather than the one in
|
|
the standard location
|
|
- Tartube no longer creates a youtube-dl archive file in its 'Unsorted Videos'
|
|
and 'Temporary Videos' folders. Any existing archive files in those folders
|
|
are automatically deleted. Other folders are not affected (Git #64)
|
|
- In the Videos tab, you can expand the tree on the left-hand side of the
|
|
window by clicking on a folder (if this behaviour has been enabled). This
|
|
behaviour has now been modified slightly. Clicking on a folder will also
|
|
collapse the tree, if already expanded. You can tell Tartube to expand the
|
|
whole tree, not just the folder itself. The settings can be specified by
|
|
selecting the checkbuttons in Edit > System preferences > Windows >
|
|
Main window
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- The system preferences window didn't show the correct location for the
|
|
loaded config file. Fixed
|
|
- The DEB package has been improved to generate fewer Lintian error messages
|
|
- Tartube was unable to switch between databases, if the main 'Download all'
|
|
button had been disabled. Fixed
|
|
- After deleting a folder, clicking the 'Add a new folder' button generated an
|
|
error. Fixed
|
|
- If the internet connection goes down during a check operation, Tartube is
|
|
now less likely to freeze
|
|
- The 'Apply changes without closing the window' button at the bottom of many
|
|
edit windows did not work as intended. Fixed
|
|
- Video descriptions are no longer editable in a video's 'Video Properties'
|
|
window
|
|
|
|
v2.0.0 (29 Feb 2020)
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|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube can now be installed from PyPI, or by using the new DEB/RPM packages
|
|
(Linux/BSD only; installation from PyPI does not work on MS Windows)
|
|
- DEB/RPM packages marked 'STRICT' are also available for uploads to
|
|
repositories with lots of rules, such as the official Debian repository.
|
|
In 'STRICT' packages, updating youtube-dl from within Tartube is disabled.
|
|
The 'STRICT' packages are compiled using new environment variables,
|
|
TARTUBE_PKG and TARTUBE_PKG_STRICT (replacing the old TARTUBE_DEBIAN)
|
|
environment variable. See the comments in setup.py for more details
|
|
- During a download operation, in the Progress Tab, you can now right-click a
|
|
video and select 'Stop after these videos'. This allows all of the current
|
|
video downloads to finish, before halting the download operation
|
|
- The download options window (in the Formats tab) did not allow users to
|
|
select an audio format before selecting a video format. The reason for this
|
|
restriction was that youtube-dl did not download the right formats, if an
|
|
audio format was selected first. Unfortuantely, it prevented users from
|
|
downloading a separate audio file, when this was available (e.g. an .m4a
|
|
file from YouTube). The restriction has now been removed; instead, Tartube
|
|
will automatically reorder the specified video/audio formats, so that video
|
|
formats are passed to youtube-dl first
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- If an upload operation is automatically performed before a download
|
|
operation, and if the user tried to download a single video/channel/
|
|
playlist/folder, everything was downloaded instead of the single video/
|
|
channel/playlist/folder. Fixed
|
|
- Fixed an error in the 'Show system command' dialogue window, that prevented
|
|
it from opening at all
|
|
- Fixed parsing of download options inside double quotes "..."
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Added a 'Cancel' button to some dialogue windows that didn't already have one
|
|
- Added a copy of the XDG module to the Tartube code, so it is no longer
|
|
necessary to install it before running/installing Tartube (Linux/BSD only)
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed a system error during a forced youtube-dl update (MS Windows only)
|
|
- Fixed wrong location for config file backups (MS Windows only)
|
|
- Fixed wrong location for Tartube temporary/test folders (all systems)
|
|
- Fixed missing (or duplicate) dialogue windows after failing to load the
|
|
config file and/or database file, in some rare situations
|
|
- The config file could not be created if its parent directory did not exist;
|
|
fixed
|
|
- Fixed loading of the wrong database file, in some rare situations
|
|
- Removed the old 'hello world' code intended for testing on MS Windows; it's
|
|
no longer required
|
|
- If Tartube can't find its icon files, a simple error message is now generated
|
|
rather than a long traceback
|
|
|
|
v1.5.0 (22 Feb 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
This is the first release candidate for v2.0.0.
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- You can now run multiple instances of Tartube on your system at the same
|
|
time. Multiple instances cannot load the same Tartube database; they must
|
|
each load their own database. Tartube will now remember the databases it
|
|
has loaded. If there are three databases (perhaps one on your main hard
|
|
disk and two on an external drive), you can start Tartube three times, and
|
|
they will each load a different database. This behaviour can be configured,
|
|
if necessary. Click 'Edit > System preferences... > Filesystem > Database'
|
|
- HookTube acts as a redirection service for YouTube. Because of lawyers and
|
|
their evil machinations, HookTube's functionality is not as extensive as it
|
|
once was. Added the Invidious website (https://invidio.us/) as an
|
|
alternative
|
|
- Added custom downloads. To start a custom download, click 'Operations >
|
|
Custom download all', or right-click a video/channel/playlist/folder. A
|
|
custom download is just like a normal download, until you customise it. To
|
|
do that, click 'Edit > System preferences > Operations > Custom'. Custom
|
|
downloads can be used to divert YouTube requests to HookTube or Invidious,
|
|
and to insert a delay between video downloads when the website is
|
|
complaining about robots
|
|
- Added a new toolbar at the bottom of the main window, below the list of
|
|
videos. The toolbar is hidden, by default. To reveal it, click the 'Show
|
|
filter options' button in the bottom right-hand corner. Buttons in the new
|
|
toolbar can be used to sort the videos alphabetically, rather than by date,
|
|
and to search for videos whose name matches a string (or regex). The button
|
|
to search for videos by date has been moved into this toolbar
|
|
- If you find a video that can't be downloaded, and you're not sure why, you
|
|
can now perform a test download. First, click 'Operations > Test
|
|
youtube-dl...' (or right-click a video in the main window's list). Copy the
|
|
video's URL into the dialogue window, and then click the OK button. Click
|
|
the Output Tab to see the results. If the test successfully downloads the
|
|
video, then the problem was with Tartube. If the test fails to download the
|
|
video, then the problem is with the underlying youtube-dl software (or with
|
|
the video website)
|
|
- During a test, it's possible to omit the video URL, while specifying some
|
|
youtube-dl download options. For example, you could fetch the youtube-dl
|
|
version number with the option --version
|
|
- Added a new operation for tidying up files in Tartube's data directory
|
|
(folder). To start the operation, click 'Operations > Tidy up files...'.
|
|
You could also right-click a channel and select 'Channel actions > Tidy up
|
|
channel', and so on. A dialogue window appears, in which you can specify
|
|
which files should be tidied up. Choose carefully, because any files
|
|
deleted as a result of this operation cannot be recovered
|
|
- The main window's switch button (in the toolbar near the top of the window)
|
|
now has six settings, rather than four. Click the button repeatedly to
|
|
cycle through them
|
|
- Interesting and important videos can now be bookmarked (e.g., by right-
|
|
clicking a video and selecting 'Mark video > Video is bookmarked').
|
|
Bookmarked videos are visible in the new 'Bookmarks' folder. Bookmarking is
|
|
an alternative to favourites; bookmarks usually apply to a single video,
|
|
whereas favourites usually apply to a whole channel, playlist or folder
|
|
- Also added a new 'Waiting Videos' folder. This acts as your own private
|
|
playlist - a list of videos that are waiting to be watched. To make a video
|
|
visible in this folder, right-click it and select 'Mark video > Video is in
|
|
waiting list'. When you watch the video, it will automatically disappear
|
|
from the 'Waiting Videos' folder (this doesn't happen to bookmarked videos)
|
|
- The previous version was unable to delete a channel, playlist or folder (see
|
|
below). That error caused a partially-deleted channel/playlist/folder to
|
|
appear in the Videos Tab, on the left-hand side. In case similar errors
|
|
occur in the future, a feature has been added to look for errors and
|
|
inconsistencies in the Tartube database and automatically fix them. Click
|
|
'Edit > System preferences... > Filesystem > DB Errors > Check' to use it
|
|
- Tartube can now fetch a list of available video formats for a video. Right-
|
|
click the video and select 'Fetch > Available formats'. Click the Output
|
|
Tab to see the results
|
|
- Tartube can also fetch a list of available subtitles for a video. Right-click
|
|
the video and select 'Fecth > Available subtitles'. Click the Output Tab to
|
|
see the results
|
|
- Tartube can now remember the size of its main window, and use the same size
|
|
when it restarts. This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, click
|
|
'Edit > System preferences... > Windows > Main window > Remember the size
|
|
of the main window when shutting down'
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- In the previous version, Tartube was unable to delete a channel, playlist or
|
|
folder. Fixed
|
|
- Some procedures took an extremely long time. For example, after right-
|
|
clicking a channel and selecting 'Channel contents > Mark videos as new',
|
|
the procedure could take several minutes if the channel had hundreds of
|
|
videos, or several hours if it contained thousands of videos. The faulty
|
|
code has been fixed, and the procedure now takes just a few seconds, even
|
|
for many thousands of videos
|
|
- Videos in a Tartube folder (for example the 'Unsorted Videos' folder) were
|
|
added to the download list in a 'Check all' operation, even when they had
|
|
been checked before. This no longer happens, by default. To restore the
|
|
original behaviour, click 'Edit > System preferences... > Operations >
|
|
Downloads > For simulate downloads, don't check a video in a folder more
|
|
than once' to deselect it
|
|
- Fixed the button for finding videos by date, which was not working at all in
|
|
the previous version
|
|
- Fixed an occasional 'signal is not defined' error when the user stops an
|
|
operation (for example, a download operation)
|
|
- Various inconsistencies in the way alternative download destinations are
|
|
handled have all been fixed. Download operations sometimes freezed
|
|
indefinitely, because Tartube doesn't download two channels/playlists/
|
|
folders with the same download destination at the same time. The code has
|
|
been updated to prevent the freeze from ever happening again
|
|
- Fixed some more crashes caused by Gtk during a download operation
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Videos downloaded into a temporary folder are deleted when Tartube restarts.
|
|
After shutting down Tartube, users often like to copy these videos
|
|
somewhere else on their hard drive. You can now ask Tartube to open the
|
|
temporary directories (folders), before shutting down, which will remind
|
|
you to do something with the videos. To enable this behaviour, click
|
|
'Edit > System preferences... > Filesystem > Temporary folders'
|
|
- In the main window's list of videos, the date is now displayed as 'today' and
|
|
'yesterday' when possible. This behaviour can be disabled in 'Edit > System
|
|
preferences... > Windows > Main window'
|
|
- During refresh operations, a progress bar is now visible in the bottom-left
|
|
corner of the window (just like the one visible during a download
|
|
operation)
|
|
- When setting an alternative download destination for a channel/playlist/
|
|
folder (for example, by right-clicking a channel and selecting 'Channel
|
|
actions > Set download destination...'), the dialogue window has been
|
|
updated to show the previously selected alternative at the top of the list.
|
|
This should save a lot of time when setting the alternative download
|
|
destination for many channels/playlists/folders
|
|
- The alternative download destination, if any, is now visible in the tooltips
|
|
for the channel/playlist/folder
|
|
- Improved the appearance of the dialogue windows seen when Tartube runs for
|
|
the first time
|
|
- Tweaked the appearance of the list of channels/playlists/folders in the
|
|
main window, so that for items with long names, more text is visible
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed a 'No such file or directory' error seen during a download operation,
|
|
if an external hard drive suddenly become disconnected (for example, if
|
|
the cable falls out)
|
|
- Fixed rare problems in loading Tartube's config file
|
|
- After a download operation, the list in the top half of the progress tab
|
|
often had one or two items in it, even when 'Hide active rows after they
|
|
are finished' was selected. Fixed
|
|
- The length of lines of text, and spacing between lines, in various dialogue
|
|
windows has been made uniform
|
|
- Improved the appearance of the main window by adding frames around everything
|
|
- Renamed some misnamed icon files. The old icon files were being used in the
|
|
MS Windows installer, so fixed that too
|
|
- If the user performed two successive refresh operations, the second one
|
|
halted after a couple of seconds. Fixed
|
|
- When videos are deleted from Tartube's database, any post-processing
|
|
artefacts are now deleted with them
|
|
- Fixed a few incorrect regex-matching actions
|
|
- The user can specify that the main 'Download all' button should be
|
|
desensitised, but the setting was not applied correctly after Tartube
|
|
restarted. Fixed
|
|
- Removed a duplicate menu option in the Video Index popup menu
|
|
- Tartube channels, playlists and folders keep counts of the number of videos
|
|
inside them, including the number of favourite videos, downloaded videos,
|
|
and so on. The code was not working correctly, so the counts were not
|
|
always accurate. This version updates the code and recalculates all of the
|
|
counts
|
|
- Fixed folder icons with an incorrect colour in various edit windows
|
|
- Fixed markup errors for videos whose URL contained an ampersand character
|
|
- Fixed the Gtk warning when closing the 'Add new video(s)' dialogue window
|
|
- Updated the installer scripts for MS Windows, so they don't try to update the
|
|
Windows registry (the code has never worked)
|
|
- You can no longer set videos as favourite, or new (etc), in an empty channel,
|
|
playlist or folder
|
|
- In the video list, labels can be right-clicked to copy a video's location
|
|
(for example, so it can be copy-pasted somewhere else). This did not work
|
|
the same way for every clickable label, and in some cases did not work at
|
|
all. Fixed
|
|
- Tooltips for videos contained & rather than a simple ampersand character.
|
|
Fixed
|
|
- Tartube debug messages for the mainapp.py file (which can only be enabled
|
|
by editing the file) now have a second debug flag, so the timer functions
|
|
can be filtered out
|
|
- Checked all keyboard shortcuts to remove duplicates
|
|
|
|
v1.4.0 (2 Feb 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- The structures of files and directories (folders) in Tartube's data
|
|
directory (into which all videos are downloaded) has been changed in
|
|
response to Git #28. Tartube will be able to recognise both structures
|
|
forever, so there is no need to move anything around on your computer. (If
|
|
you actually want to move things around, see the README file)
|
|
- Creating a channel/playlist/folder starting with a full stop (period) is no
|
|
longer allowed; some channels/playlists/folders might be automatically
|
|
renamed when you open Tartube
|
|
- The edit and preference windows have been reorganised, adding a second
|
|
layer of tabs in many windows. This should hopefully make things a little
|
|
easier to find
|
|
- In the download options window, you can now specify multiple languages for
|
|
your subtitles, instead of just one (Git #47)
|
|
- Added some more filename formats (in Edit > General download options...
|
|
> Files > File names). When downloading a partial playlist (for example,
|
|
starting at the 5th video), youtube-dl cannot create files with the correct
|
|
number (naming the first file downloaded #1, instead of #5). Tartube can
|
|
now handle this correctly. In the drop-down box, use one of the formats
|
|
containing 'Autonumber' (Git #47)
|
|
- You can now limit the length of a download operation. This is particularly
|
|
useful on small devices, or when leaving Tartube to run overnight. Click
|
|
Edit > System preferences... > Scheduling > Stop, and choose one or more of
|
|
the new options (Git #47)
|
|
- When adding new videos, channels or playlists, you can now turn on clipboard
|
|
monitoring. Simply select a URL (for example, in your web browser), press
|
|
CTRL+C to copy it to your system's clipboard, and then Tartube will
|
|
automatically paste it into the dialogue window (Git #52)
|
|
- The MS Windows installer now includes a copy of AtomicParsley, so there is no
|
|
need to install it yourself. This does not affect Linux/BSD users, who can
|
|
continue installing AtomicParsley by the usual methods
|
|
- The list in the top half of the Progress Tab is often full, and it's
|
|
sometimes difficult to see what is being downloaded right at this moment.
|
|
You can now hide finished rows, if you want to, so that active rows appear
|
|
at the top of the list
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- The Gtk graphics libraries have historically been full of bugs, which made
|
|
applications using Gtk unstable. Most of these bugs are fixed, but the
|
|
fixes can take years before they propogate into operating systems. If Gtk
|
|
v3.22 (or lower) is installed on your system, Tartube automatically
|
|
disables some minor cosmetic features to prevent crashes. If you are using
|
|
Gtk v3.24 or later, and are still experiencing unexplainable crashes, you
|
|
can now disable the cosmetic features regardless of Gtk version. Click
|
|
Edit > System preferences... > General > Modules, and select 'Assume that
|
|
Gtk is broken...'
|
|
- On Linux/BSD, attempts to update youtube-dl from the Tartube menu so,etimes
|
|
produced a 'permission denied' error. There are now new settings available
|
|
in 'Edit > System prefences... > youtube-dl > Shell command for update
|
|
operations'. If you installed youtube-dl using pip/pip3, the 'recommended'
|
|
options should now work, if they didn't work before. Some pip3 warning
|
|
messages, which caused Tartube to think the update had failed, are now
|
|
filtered out
|
|
- A user complained that his Tartube database file had been corrupted. We are
|
|
still not sure what the cause was, but the code has been changed to make
|
|
that kind of corruption impossible
|
|
- Fixed some occasional crashes when, during a download operation, Tartube
|
|
tried to sort the videos in the selected channel/playlist/folder
|
|
- When switching databases, if Tartube couldn't load the new database, it tried
|
|
again after being restarted, rather than trying to load the previous
|
|
(readable) database. This has now been fixed
|
|
- Some youtube-dl download options could be applied to playlists, but not
|
|
channels, even though youtube-dl allows them to be applied to be both.
|
|
Fixed, and updated some labels to make it clearer what the options are for
|
|
(Git #47)
|
|
- In all edit windows, the 'Apply' button at the bottom of the window did not
|
|
work. Fixed
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube icons have been updated, in some cases making them easier to identify
|
|
- In the Progress Tab, added tooltips to assist with identifying undownloaded
|
|
videos (Git #51)
|
|
- More types of YouTube error message can now be filtered out
|
|
- We have also added a customisable list of strings (or regular expressions);
|
|
if set, any matching error/warning messages (on any website) are filtered
|
|
out
|
|
- In the Video Index popup menus, 'rename default location' has been changed
|
|
to a much more comprehensible 'rename channel', etc
|
|
- You can now open a video in its system directory (folder) by right-clicking
|
|
it, and selecting 'Show location'
|
|
- You can now switch databases from the main menu. Click File > Change database
|
|
(which opens the preference window at the correct page; hopefully this is
|
|
quicker than trying to find the right page yourself)
|
|
- There was no way to save Tartube's config file (except by shutting down
|
|
Tartube). To do that, you can now click File > Save all
|
|
- If Tartube is unable to read the config file and/or database file, the text
|
|
in the resulting dialogue windows has been improved. In some circumstances,
|
|
multiple dialogue windows were produced; this has now been fixed
|
|
- In the download options window, the option to 'embed subtitles with video'
|
|
now appears in two different places, to make it easier to find (Git #47)
|
|
- If the 'Add new video(s)', 'Add a new channel' or 'Add a new playlist'
|
|
dialogue windows are open, you can now drag-and-drop into them (Linux/BSD
|
|
only). Modifications to the code mean that it's no longer possible to
|
|
drop one URL into the middle of an existing one, rendering both of them
|
|
useless
|
|
- Tartube checked URLs for validity before adding them, but this did not work
|
|
as well as intended. The code has been improved, so less garbage should
|
|
appear in the 'Add new video(s)' dialogue window, and so on
|
|
- You could already download a temporary copy of video(s) by right-clicking
|
|
them and selecting 'Temporary > Download', but that can be inconvenient
|
|
for multiple videos, as you had to wait for each download to finish. You
|
|
can now select 'Temporary > Mark for download' instead, which creates a
|
|
copy of the video in the 'Temporary Videos' folder. When you're ready to
|
|
download them all, just download that folder
|
|
- Minor improvements to aesthetics for some textviews and treeviews
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed incorrect operation of the checkbuttons in the Errors/Warnings Tab.
|
|
Added new checkbuttons to separate Tartube errors/warnings from youtube-dl
|
|
errors/warnings (Git #50)
|
|
- 'Child process exited with non-zero code' errors still appeared in the
|
|
Errors/Warnins tab, even if the user has disabled them. Fixed
|
|
- Tooltips for videos could not be enabled/disabled if no channel/playlist/
|
|
folder was selected. Fixed
|
|
- On MS Windows, edit/preference windows will no longer increase in size, if
|
|
there isn't enough room for each window's tabs
|
|
- Fixed rare 'Permission denied' errors when trying to create a directory
|
|
(folder) on the filesystem
|
|
- In the download options edit window, the combobox for audio formats had
|
|
multiple and ever-increasing empty spaces. Fixed
|
|
- In the download options window, File > File names, the default value for the
|
|
custom format was garbled. Fixed, and it should now be working as intended
|
|
- During a simulated download, videos which are not in a channel or playlist
|
|
(for example, videos in the 'Unsorted Videos' folder) did not appear in
|
|
the Results List in the Progress Tab. Fixed
|
|
- Fixed an unprintable character in the licence declaration, visible in
|
|
Tartube's 'About' window
|
|
- When deleting a video, Tartube will now delete more related files (such as
|
|
those produced when post-processing a video)
|
|
- Removed a few duplicate ISO 639-1 language codes
|
|
|
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v1.3.077 (26 Jan 2020)
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|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Drag and drop (for example, from a web browser into Tartube's main window)
|
|
is now fully working on Linux/BSD. On MS Windows, drag and drop does not
|
|
work at all for any Gtk application. It is unlikely that the Tartube
|
|
authors can do anything about this (Git #35)
|
|
- The 'Add new video(s)' dialogue window can now handle URLs representing
|
|
channels and playlists, as well as URLs representing individual videos.
|
|
During a download operation, if Tartube is expecting an individual video
|
|
but receives a channel/playlist, it will automatically create a new
|
|
channel, and download videos into that channel. You can change this default
|
|
behaviour, if you want (Edit > System preferences... > URL flexibility
|
|
preferences)
|
|
- To change the name of the new channel/playlist, right-click it and select
|
|
'Filesystem > Rename default location...'
|
|
- If Tartube creates a channel, which should really be a playlist, then you
|
|
can now convert one to the other. Right-click a channel and select
|
|
'Channel actions > Convert to playlist'. Right-click a playlist and select
|
|
'Playlist actions > Convert to channel'
|
|
- In the download options windows, it's now very easy to tell Tartube to
|
|
convert videos to sound files. Open the window by clicking 'Edit >
|
|
General download options...', click the 'Hide advanced download options'
|
|
button if necessary, click the 'Sound only' tab, select your preferences,
|
|
and apply them by clicking the OK button at the bottom of the window
|
|
- You can now see the download options applied to a video, channel, playlist
|
|
or folder without having to download anything. Right-click a video/channel/
|
|
playlist/folder and select 'Downloads > Show system command'
|
|
- During a download operation, the system commands used are now visible (by
|
|
default) in the Output Tab. The system command can also be displayed in the
|
|
terminal, if required; this is disabled by default
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- In the Output Tab, the summary page is now hidden by default. To make it
|
|
visible, click 'Edit > System Preferences... > Output >
|
|
Show a summary of active threads' and then restart Tartube
|
|
- In the Errors/Warnings Tab, added checkbuttons to filter out errors and/or
|
|
warning messages, if required (Git #50)
|
|
- In the Progress tab, in the top half of the window, you can now right-click
|
|
an unnamed video to open it in your web browser. This will be useful in
|
|
identifying videos that did not download, and whose name is unknown to
|
|
Tartube (Git #51)
|
|
- Columns in the Progress tab have been rearranged a little, so that the
|
|
user can more easily see how quickly the download is progressing, when
|
|
Tartube's main window is small
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed multiple issues with Tartube, when running under Python 3.8
|
|
- Replaced all remaining references to the Python os.rename() function, which
|
|
can cause crashes on some filesystems (Git #34)
|
|
- Fixed crashes caused by the new YouTube error messages (January 2020), which
|
|
some versions of youtube-dl cannot handle correctly
|
|
- Fixed issues with the default location for videos, again. Fixed an issue
|
|
with adding folders inside the currently selected folder (Git #36, #46)
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed various Gtk warning messages, visible only on some systems
|
|
- Videos whose name contains an ampersand (&) character could not be opened by
|
|
clicking the 'Media player' label in the Video Catalogue. Fixed
|
|
- The properties windows for videos, channels and playlists showed a folder
|
|
icon, instead of a video/channel/playlist icon. Fixed
|
|
- The popup menu in the Progress tab, in the top half of the tab, did not work
|
|
as intended during a download operation, and again after a download
|
|
operation. Fixed both sets of issues
|
|
- Coloured text was not displayed in the Output Tab correctly. Fixed
|
|
|
|
v1.3.048 (23 Jan 2020)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube now creates an icon in the user's system tray. Closing the main
|
|
window now closes to the tray, by default. To disable this behaviour,
|
|
click Edit > System preferences > Windows > Deselect 'Close to the tray...'
|
|
- When that functionality is enabled, Tartube can be shutdown by clicking
|
|
File > Quit. Scheduled download operations will still take place if Tartube
|
|
has been closed to the tray. Implements Github issue #37
|
|
- Tartube can now show a desktop notification at the end of a download
|
|
operation, rather that a dialogue window. This does not work on MS Windows.
|
|
On other operating systems, enable desktop notifications by clicking
|
|
Edit > System preferences... > Operations > Show a desktop notification...
|
|
- When you click the 'Add new video(s)' button, the folder displayed in the
|
|
dialogue window is now the same folder that's selected in the main window
|
|
(if any). The same applies for adding channels, playlists and folders.
|
|
Fixes Github issue #36
|
|
- If you normally use the 'Check all' button rather than the 'Download all'
|
|
button, and if you want to download a temporary copy of one of the videos,
|
|
there's now an easier way to do it. In the Videos tab, right-click the
|
|
video, and select 'Temporary > Download' or 'Temporary > Download and
|
|
Watch'. A copy of the video is downloaded into the 'Temporary Videos'
|
|
folder, without affecting any other folders
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- The icons for channels and playlists have been replaced, to make it easier to
|
|
tell them apart. Some other icons have been replaced too
|
|
- Videos can now be dragged and dropped from a web browser (or similar
|
|
application) into Tartube's main window, which automatically adds the video
|
|
to the currently selected folder (or 'Unsorted Videos', if no folder is
|
|
selected). Unfortunately, the code is not yet working reliably. We are
|
|
looking for a solution (Github issue #35)
|
|
- The layout of the Format tab in the download options window has been improved
|
|
to alleviate confusion experienced by users trying to download a video to
|
|
a sound format such as .mp3 (only). See the new section in the README file
|
|
- A number of new video/audio formats have been added, for example several new
|
|
60fps formats, implementing Github issue #40
|
|
- When you apply download options to a video/channel/playlist/folder, the
|
|
options are now cloned from the default set of options (those visible in
|
|
Edit > General download options...). To disable this behaviour, click
|
|
Edit > System preferences... > Operations > When applying download options,
|
|
automatically clone general download options. Implements Github issue #39
|
|
- The options already applied to a video/channel/playlist/folder can now be
|
|
reset to match the general options, any time you want. Use the new button
|
|
at the bottom of the download options window, in the General tab
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed a rare crash when the video's JSON filename was too long for the
|
|
operating system
|
|
- In the download options window, Formats tab, the user can add up to three
|
|
video formats. The third format, if added, was always ignored. Fixed
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- If you perform a refresh operation on a folder, the operation now applies to
|
|
all videos, channels, playlists and folders inside it
|
|
- After adding a video to the folder that's currently selected, the video does
|
|
not appear immediately in the video catalogue. Fixed
|
|
- In the Progress and Errors/Warnings tabs, the column headers scrolled away
|
|
along with the rest of the list. Fixed; they are now always visible
|
|
- Video nicknames were not set correctly after an update operation. Fixed
|
|
- During a refresh operation, a video's name was compared against the full
|
|
filepath (filename and extension), which produced none of the intended
|
|
matches. Fixed
|
|
- The edit/preference windows had a tendency to increase in size without
|
|
limits. Fixed
|
|
- A video's annotations.xml file was not deleted correctly, when required.
|
|
Fixed
|
|
- In the download options window, the option 'hls-prefer-ffmpeg' is now working
|
|
correctly
|
|
- In the download options window, the 'prefer avconv over ffmpeg' options have
|
|
been desensitised on MS Windows, as there is no known method of using
|
|
Tartube with avconv on MS Windows
|
|
- youtube-dl creates a file, ytdl-archive.txt, recording all the videos that
|
|
it has downloaded. This can interfere if the user tries to re-download the
|
|
video(s) for any reason. Create of the ytdl-archive.txt file can now be
|
|
disabled (Edit > System preferences... > youtube-dl > Deselect 'Allow
|
|
youtube-dl to create its own archive...')
|
|
- If creation of the archive file is nonetheless enabled, Tartube can now
|
|
re-download video(s) without problems
|
|
- In rare circumstances, Tartube was unable to redraw the video catalogue
|
|
(the right-hand side of the Videos tab). Fxied
|
|
|
|
v1.3.007 (20 Dec 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- v1.3.007 was completely broken when replacing an earlier installation. Fixed
|
|
- When Tartube's data directory was copied from one place to another (for
|
|
example, from one external drive to another), Tartube did not adapt to the
|
|
change very well. The way file paths are stored in Tartube's database has
|
|
been changed to eliminate this problem
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed an invalid time value which (sometimes) prevented a refresh operation
|
|
from completing correctly
|
|
|
|
v1.3.0 (20 Dec 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube on MS Windows did not recognise FFmpeg or AVConv. You can now tell
|
|
Tartube to download and install a compatible version of FFmpeg from the
|
|
main menu (Operations > Install FFmpeg). Tartube still cannot recognise
|
|
the ordinary version of FFmpeg, and it still does not recognise AVConv at
|
|
all. It is unlikely that this situation can be remedied
|
|
- A new Output Tab has been added, in which you can see what is happening
|
|
internally when you check or download videos, update youtube-dl, install
|
|
FFmpeg, or refresh the Tartube database. The amount of information shown
|
|
can be customised in the System preferences window. The information can
|
|
still be written to STDOUT/STDERR, if required
|
|
- For users on other operating systems, the system preferences window
|
|
displayed the wrong location of the FFmpeg/AVConv executable. This has now
|
|
been fixed
|
|
- There are now two simple ways to specify the video resolution you want to
|
|
download (for example, 1080p). You can use the download options window
|
|
(Edit > General download options... > Formats, and then choose a video
|
|
format like 'any format [1080p]'). You can also use the new spinbutton at
|
|
the bottom of the Progress Tab. Both of these methods have the same effect,
|
|
so it's not necessary to use both of them. Tartube will download videos in
|
|
that resolution if possible, or in the next highest available resolution
|
|
otherwise
|
|
- The download options window has been simplified, with only the most useful
|
|
options visible. If you want to see the full range of options, open any
|
|
download options window, and in the General tab, click the new 'Show
|
|
advanced download options' button
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- By default, temporary folders are no longer emptied when Tartube shuts down,
|
|
but only when Tartube starts up. This means you can continue watching
|
|
temporary videos you've downloaded even after shutting down Tartube. If you
|
|
want temporary folders to be emptied on shutdown, as before, select Edit >
|
|
System preferences... > Videos > Empty temporary folders when Tartube shuts
|
|
down
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- Tartube experienced a whole range of problems when downloading videos to a
|
|
hard drive that was running out of space. Tartube now checks the available
|
|
disk space before starting to download anything, and continues checking it
|
|
throughout the download process. You can specify how much disk space should
|
|
be available in the System Preferences window. If the hard drive, despite
|
|
your best efforts, actually does run out of space, Tartube is now much more
|
|
resilient (and can usually halt the download process, rather than
|
|
crashing). The amount of disk space available is now visible in the System
|
|
Preferences window
|
|
- Adding a channel/playlist/folder whose name included a slash, for example
|
|
'Adam/Eve's Channel', had unfortunate consequences, with Tartube creating
|
|
a directory (folder) at the wrong location. Slashes are now automatically
|
|
converted to hyphens, which solves the problem
|
|
- In Tartube's window, dragging a channel/playlist/folder to a new location in
|
|
the tree changes the hard drive, moving a directory (folder) to a new
|
|
location in the filesystem. If a directory (folder) with the same name
|
|
already existed at that location, an invisible error occurs. Tartube now
|
|
displays a visible error so the user can delete the duplicate directory
|
|
(folder) manually
|
|
- When refreshing the Tartube database (e.g. Operations > Refresh database),
|
|
the moviepy module freezes if it encounters a corrupted video file. We
|
|
can't fix the moviepy module, but the Tartube code has been made much more
|
|
resilient
|
|
- When refreshing the Tartube database, Tartube made bad decisions if it was
|
|
looking for a video called 'ymca.mp4', but found a video called
|
|
'ymca.webm'. This has been fixed
|
|
- Tartube is now able to detect if its data directory (into which videos are
|
|
downloaded) doesn't exist. Usually this is because an external hard drive
|
|
has not been mounted; the user is now warned about this, so they can mount
|
|
it
|
|
- On MS Windows, if the user has updated youtube-dl or installed FFmpeg,
|
|
Tartube no longer freezes on shutdown
|
|
- On MS Windows, Tartube was unable to open a video file in the system's
|
|
default media player, if the name contained an ampersand. Fixed
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- When deleting large channels/playlists/folders, sometimes not everything was
|
|
deleted, and the user had to delete the item a second time. This was due to
|
|
inconsistencies in the Tartube database, which have now been fixed
|
|
- Channels/playlists/folders beginning with a number, e.g. '5 Pewdiepie', were
|
|
supposed to be displayed in numerical order, rather than in strict
|
|
alphabetical order. This did not work as intended (e.g. '11 Pewdiepie' was
|
|
listed before '1 T-Series'). Fixed again
|
|
- In the 'Delete channel' dialogue window (and so on), the name of the channel
|
|
to be deleted is now displayed prominently
|
|
- The size of the MS Windows installer has been reduced by about 40%
|
|
|
|
v1.2.008 (30 Sep 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Tartube now ignores the YouTube 'WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles'
|
|
by default. You can change this setting, if you want to
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- When moving a channel/playlist/folder to a different place on your
|
|
filesystem, or when renaming a channel/playlist/folder, in certain rare
|
|
situations data in the Tartube database isn't updated correctly. This may
|
|
lead to a freeze or a crash. I'm not sure yet what the cause is, but I have
|
|
added temporary code to prevent the problem affecting any user
|
|
- Fixed error messages generated when checking/downloading individual
|
|
channels/playlists/folders
|
|
- Fixed faulty code for importing videos/channels/playlists/folders into the
|
|
database
|
|
|
|
v1.2.0 (31 Aug 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Multiple channels, playlists and/or folders can now download their videos to
|
|
a single location. The README.rst file explains how it works, and why you
|
|
might want to do it
|
|
- You can also tell Tartube to download all videos into the 'Unsorted Videos'
|
|
or 'Temporary Videos' folders, instead of downloading them into separate
|
|
directories/folders for each channel and playlist
|
|
- Added automatic deletion of videos, disabled by default. Before enabling it,
|
|
you should do a 'Check all' or 'Download all' operation, which will create
|
|
the necessary youtube-dl archive files
|
|
- Added archiving. A video, channel, playlist or folder that is marked
|
|
archived won't be auto-deleted (but can still be deleted manually by the
|
|
user)
|
|
- You can now disable both checking and downloading a channel, playlist or
|
|
folder, if you want to. (It was already possible to just disabled
|
|
downloading them)
|
|
- Download operations can now be scheduled to take place at regular intervals
|
|
- You can now 'Download and watch' a video. The video is opened in your
|
|
system's default media player as soon as it has been downloaded
|
|
- Tartube can now download a video's annotations file automatically. Warnings
|
|
generated by YouTube about the lack of annotations are ignored by default
|
|
- For channels/playlists/folders containing many videos, you can now skip to
|
|
the first video uploaded after a certain date, using the new button in the
|
|
toolbar at the bottom of the Videos Tab
|
|
- The lists in the Results Tab can now be right-clicked, so you can change the
|
|
order in which videos/channels/playlists/folders are checked/downloaded,
|
|
abandon a download, play a video directly from the Results List, delete a
|
|
video directly from the Results List, and so on
|
|
- The edit window for youtube-dl options has been improved, adding many new
|
|
options to the GUI interface
|
|
- Plain text exports of Tartube's database can now be re-imported. Some
|
|
inconsistencies with the import process (from JSON and plain text files)
|
|
have been fixed
|
|
|
|
MINOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- Added tooltips in several places. If you don't want to see tooltips above
|
|
videos/channels/playlists/folders, you can turn them off
|
|
- You can now select multiple videos in the Video Catalogue, and apply an
|
|
action to all of them (by right-clicking them)
|
|
- You can now switch to smaller icons in the Video Index (on the left side of
|
|
the Videos Tab), if you want to
|
|
- You can now force the Video Index to expand its tree whenever you click on a
|
|
folder, revealing any channels/playlists it contains. This is disabled by
|
|
default
|
|
- If you only want to check videos, and never download them, you can disable
|
|
the 'Download all' buttons. Individual videos/channels/playlists/folders
|
|
can still be downloaded by right-clicking them
|
|
- Tartube's file structure has changed. If you run it from the command line,
|
|
you might need to use a (slightly) different command. See the README.rst
|
|
for details of what command to use
|
|
- The path to the FFmpeg/AVConv executable can now be specified by the user.
|
|
This will be especially helpful for MS Windows users
|
|
- Columns in the Progress Tab can now be manually resized
|
|
- The Tartube website can now be opened from the main window menu
|
|
- XDG has been added as an optional dependency, for the benefit of Debian
|
|
packagers
|
|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- The MS Windows installer should now work for everyone
|
|
- Refresh operations are now stable (should not crash) on systems with Gtk 3.22
|
|
or earlier
|
|
- When downloads were disabled for a folder, downloads for channels/playlists/
|
|
folders inside that folder were still enabled. This is counter-intuitive,
|
|
so disabling downloads for a folder disables downloads for everything it
|
|
contains
|
|
- Marking/unmarking a video as favourite caused certain problems, which should
|
|
now be fixed
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- Fixed some unicode errors in reading JSON and plain text files
|
|
- Fixed the wrong page size displayed in the toolbar at the bototm of the
|
|
Videos Tab
|
|
- Empty lines in a video's description are now preserved when they're displayed
|
|
in Tartube's main window
|
|
|
|
v1.1.0 (18 Aug 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
|
|
- You can now create an export of Tartube's database. This export contains
|
|
details of videos, channels, playlists and/or folders, but not the videos
|
|
themselves (or any of the thumbnail/description/metadata files). The
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export can take two forms: JSON data, or plain text. If JSON data, the
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exported file can later be imported into another Tartube database (imports
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from plain text are not implemented yet). You can export either the
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entire database, or just one channel/playlist/folder (and everythng it
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contains)
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- You can now change the name of a channel, playlist of folder. This doesn't
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have any effect on your filesystem; it only changes the name displayed in
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the Video Index (the left-hand side of the Videos Tab). This might be
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useful for channels and playlists that have weird or very short names. For
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example, right-click a folder and select 'Folder actions > Set nickname...'
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- You can also rename the channel, playlist or folder, and this action DOES
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affect the filesystem, changing the directory/folder on your hard drive
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where the channel/playlist/folder videos are stored. For example, right-
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click a folder and select 'Filesystem > Rename location...'
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- If you change the format of a downloaded video file from the default 'Title'
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to, for example, 'Title + ID', the Video catalogue (the right-hand side of
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the Videos Tab) will now simply display the video's title (which should be
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easier to read). To see the actual filename, you can right-click the video
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and select 'Show properties'. This only works if the video's metadata was
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downloaded when the video itself was downloaded; this is now turned on by
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default for all new users
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MINOR NEW FEATURES
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- When adding videos, channels and playlists, the contents of the system's
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clipboard was automatically copied into the window. This can now be turned
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off, if you wish (Edit > System preferences... > Windows > When adding
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videos/channels/playlists, copy URLs from the system clipboard)
|
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- When adding channels/playlists, you can set the dialogue window to stay open,
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which makes adding multiple channels/playlists quicker (Edit >
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System preferences... > Windows > When adding channels/playlists, keep the
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dialogue window open)
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- When creating channels/playlists/folders inside an existing parent folder, a
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dialogue window which stays open can be told to continuously re-use that
|
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parent folder (Edit > System preferences... > Windows > When adding
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channels/playlists, re-use the optional parent folder)
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- When checking/downloading videos, the Results List (the bottom half of the
|
|
Progress Tab) can now display videos in reverse order, so you don't have to
|
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scroll down to see the video that was just checked/downloaded (Edit >
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System Preferences... > Windows > Show results in reverse order)
|
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- The number of ystem error and warning messages displayed in their own tab
|
|
is visible in the tab's label. The label is usually reset when the tab
|
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is made visible. You can now disable this behaviour, preserving the numbers
|
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until the 'Clear the list' button is explicitly clicked (Edit >
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|
System preferences... > Windows > Don't remove number of system messages
|
|
from tab label until 'Clear' button is clicked)
|
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- Items in the Video Index (on the left-hand side of the Videos Tab) are sorted
|
|
alphabetically. The sorting algorithm has been improved to take account of
|
|
numbered items, such that '1 Music' will now appear before '11 Comedy'
|
|
- For the benefit of package maintainers (such as a Debian package), Tartube
|
|
now uses an environment variable which will prevent Tartube from updating
|
|
the youtube-dl binary, if specified. See the comments in setup.py
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|
|
|
MAJOR FIXES
|
|
- Users whose system Gtk is earlier than v3.24 (this includes many current
|
|
Linux distros, but the MS Windows installer) will have experienced graphics
|
|
issues, and endless error messages in the terminal window, if open. If your
|
|
system Gtk is earlier than v3.24, Tartube will no longer update the Video
|
|
Index during a download operation; this should fix the issue at the cost of
|
|
disabling real-time updates of the number of videos in each channel,
|
|
playlist and folder. Your system's Gtk version is now visible in Tartube's
|
|
System Preferences window
|
|
- After loading the config file, the download limits were set, but not
|
|
displayed in the Progress Tab. Fixed
|
|
- Rarely, Tartube crashes (or freezes) when loading a video's JSON metadata
|
|
file from your filesystem (but now when downloading it). This should no
|
|
longer happen
|
|
|
|
MINOR FIXES
|
|
- The 'Channel properties', 'Folder properties' (etc) windows used the wrong
|
|
icon (displaying a folder in the wrong colour). Fixed
|
|
- Fixed a 'list modified during sort' error during a download operation
|
|
|
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v1.0.0 (31 Jul 2019)
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- First beta release
|
|
- Fixed some issues with the MS Windows installer
|
|
- Some parts of the Tartube window displayed the wrong icons. Fixed
|
|
|
|
v0.7.0 (7 Jul 2019)
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
- This is the first release candidate for v1.0.0
|
|
- The MS Windows installer has been redesigned again (thanks to slartie for his
|
|
generous assistance in getting it working). Some MS Windows 10 users were
|
|
still complaining that Tartube would not run; this should be fixed now
|
|
- MS Windows should find that the annoying terminal window is no longer visible
|
|
- Deleting individual videos, then adding them to the Tartube database again,
|
|
could cause problems with the statistics displayed in the Video Index (e.g.
|
|
'All Videos (0, -1)'. Fixed
|
|
- Deleting and individual video by right-clicking it removed the video from the
|
|
database, but didn't delete the video file itself. Fixed
|
|
- If an empty channel/playlist was selected, new videos did not automatically
|
|
appear in the Video Catalogue during a download operation. Fixed
|
|
- Fixed some issues with the Temporary Videos folder
|
|
- Fixed more issues with videos being dislayed in the wrong order in the Video
|
|
Catalogue
|
|
- Fixed more issues with the scrollbars not resetting themselves when switching
|
|
between channels/playlists/folders
|
|
- After right-clicking a folder, selecting Mark Videos > New didn't work. Fixed
|
|
- When marking videos as new/favourite, you can now do this to all videos
|
|
in a folder, including all child channels/playlists/folders, or you can do
|
|
it just to the videos actually inside that folder. There are several new
|
|
popup menu options for emptying a folder, or for removing all its videos
|
|
- Tartube will no longer issue a system error if you drag a folder onto itself
|
|
in the Video Index
|
|
- Fixed the remaining issues caused by the Gtk graphics libraries
|
|
- Confirmed that various Gtk issues present in Gtk3.22 are not present in
|
|
Gtk 3.24. Users with Gtk 3.22 on their system will be warned to update it.
|
|
These warnings can be disabled, if required
|
|
|
|
v0.6.0 (4 Jul 2019)
|
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
- Some MS Windows users, especially on Windows 10, report that they can't run
|
|
Tartube at all. In an effort to get around this, the installer has been
|
|
redesigned. The way Tartube communicates with youtube-dl on MS Windows has
|
|
been changed. youtube-dl update operations should now work flawlessly.
|
|
Please report any further problems at our GitHub page; this might be a fix
|
|
to issue #10
|
|
- Users on Linux/*BSD can now run Tartube directly from the command line, after
|
|
installing it (see the README)
|
|
- Occasionally, videos were downloaded (or checked) successfully, but Tartube
|
|
failed to notice them. This issue should now be fixed
|
|
- When checking videos/channels/playlists/folders, only new videos will now
|
|
appear in the Results List (in the 'Progress' Tab)
|
|
- The toolbar has been redesigned. MS Windows users won't see labels at all
|
|
(so everything should fit). Users on all system can turn labels on or off.
|
|
Tooltips have been added to the buttons, in case the labels are turned off
|
|
- Fixed yet another problem with button to switch the location of Tartube's
|
|
data folder (#6)
|
|
- Tartube no longer requires the python 'validators' module
|
|
- Tartube can now ignore YouTube copyright messages, and also 'Child process
|
|
exited with non-zero code' messages, meaning that they won't appear in
|
|
Tartube's Errors/Warnings Tab. (They are not ignored by default)
|
|
- Tartube now applies a 60-second timeout when youtube-dl tries to download
|
|
a video's metadata (since youtube-dl uses a 10-minute timeout); this can be
|
|
turned off, if required (#9)
|
|
- Fixed some more issues with the way videos are sorted in the Video Catalogue
|
|
(it's still not 100%)
|
|
- Users can no longer type in comboboxes
|
|
- Tartube now spots when the user adds a channel or playlist URL as a video;
|
|
only the first video in the channel/playlist is now downloaded
|
|
- You can no longer remove download options from a media data object when the
|
|
download options edit window is still open
|
|
- When you update youtube-dl, Tartube will now tell you which youtube-dl
|
|
version is installed. Tartube will no longer claim the update operation
|
|
fails if you're using pip (rather than pip3)
|
|
|
|
v0.5.0 (1 Jul 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
- On MS Windows, the fix from v0.4.0 to prevent a crash whenever the user tries
|
|
to change the location of Tartube's data directory, did not work. Fixed it
|
|
again (#6), and added some dialogue window to make it clearer to the user
|
|
what is going on
|
|
- Fixed problems with dragging-and-dropping (or otherwise moving) a channel,
|
|
playlist or folder to a new location (such as another folder). The videos
|
|
were not updated with their new location. The new code will fix any
|
|
problems in the Tartube database
|
|
- Fixed numerous problems with the code that sorts videos into the right order,
|
|
and which displays videos in the Video Catalogue in the right order
|
|
- The 'Switch' button no longer resets the page back to the first one
|
|
- When switching between channels/playlists/folders, scrollbars are
|
|
automatically moved back to the top
|
|
- In the toolbar beneath the Video Catalogue, there are two new buttons for
|
|
scrolling to the top or bottom of the visible page. Users can now select
|
|
a different page just by typing the page number and pressing RETURN. The
|
|
same applies to the page size - there is no button to click any more, just
|
|
type the new size and press RETURN
|
|
- Fixed several problems which were still preventing selection of different
|
|
video formats (#3)
|
|
- Added bare-bones aac, m4a, mp3, ogg and wav as recognised video formats
|
|
- A set of download options can now be completely reset to their default values
|
|
- The 'Add Videos' dialogue window, and some others, don't behave well when the
|
|
user resizes them. Fixed (#4)
|
|
- Added a small folder icon to the the 'Add Videos' dialogue window, and
|
|
others, so the user is less likely to forget to set a custom location
|
|
- In the 'Add Videos' dialogue window, and others, URLs are now tidied up a
|
|
bit because being copied from the clipboard, eliminating leading/trailing
|
|
whitespace and empty lines
|
|
- The Gtk test window, available for MS Windows after using the installer,
|
|
now contains some text (to make it clear that the window is working as
|
|
intended)
|
|
|
|
v0.4.0 (29 Jun 2019)
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
- Drastic improvements to overall performance. Download operations are now much
|
|
smoother. You should notice a much lighter burden on your machine's CPU
|
|
- The graphics libraries struggled to draw lists containing hundreds (or
|
|
thousands!) of videos, so the Video Catalogue has been split into pages. It
|
|
typically takes less then a second to show the 'All Videos' folder, if it
|
|
contains hundreds of videos, rather than several minutes
|
|
- If you just want to find new videos, you can now tell Tartube to stop
|
|
checking/downloading channels/playlists as soon as notifications of videos
|
|
you've already checked/downloaded start arriving. This works well on
|
|
YouTube, which sends the newest videos first, but might not work well on
|
|
all websites. The new functionality is turned off by default. Click
|
|
'Edit > System preferences > Performance > Time-saving preferences' to turn
|
|
it on
|
|
- The installer for 32-bit MS Windows failed under all circumstances. Applied a
|
|
fix
|
|
- On MS Windows, the uninstaller was invisible. It can now be executed from the
|
|
Start Menu
|
|
- On MS Windows, fixed a crash whenever the user tried to changed the location
|
|
of Tartube's data directory (#6)
|
|
- Fixed some problems with the 'Add videos' dialogue window, which tried to add
|
|
all sorts of invalid URLs (such as lines containing only empty space). The
|
|
other 'Add' dialogue windows were also fixed
|
|
- A limit to the length of a channel/playlist/folder name now applies
|
|
- Leading/trailing whitespace is now removed from URLs and channel/playlist/
|
|
folder names
|
|
- The 'Add videos' dialogue window now checks for duplicate URLs, and when
|
|
found, doesn't add them to the database
|
|
- Fixed various problems caused by deleting a video/channel/playlist/folder
|
|
(such as the numbers visible in the Video Index). If you've been using an
|
|
earlier version of Tartube, any such problems with the database will be
|
|
automatically repaired for you (#8)
|
|
- Videos which haven't actually been downloaded can now be deleted from the
|
|
database by right-clicking them
|
|
- Added new options for making backups of the Tartube database file, in case it
|
|
becomes corrupted. See the settings in
|
|
'Edit > System preferences... > Backups'
|
|
- The 'Switch' button now switches between four 'skins' (instead of the
|
|
previous two). Two of them show the name of a video's parent channel/
|
|
playlist/folder; the other two show the video's description
|
|
- Fixed incorrect formatting in the DASH and 3D file formats (#3)
|
|
|
|
v0.3.0 (25 Jun 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
- Tartube will now run on MS Windows
|
|
- Fixed some more crashes
|
|
- Fixed some issues with video descriptions containing quotes and ampersand
|
|
characters
|
|
|
|
v0.2.0 (23 Jun 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
- Corrected old Python2 code to work on Python3
|
|
- Greatly expanded the README file
|
|
- Fixed the constant crashes
|
|
- Fixed some Gtk problems (but others remain unfixed)
|
|
- Fixed downloads for users who haven't installed Ffmpeg, and for sites that
|
|
don't support Ffmpeg
|
|
- Several other minor tweaks/fixes
|
|
|
|
v0.1.0 (27 May 2019)
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
- This is the first public release of Tartube
|
|
|